CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2018-16270
Samsung Galaxy Gear series before build RE2 includes the hcidump utility with no privilege or permission restriction. This allows an unprivileged process to dump Bluetooth HCI packets to an arbitrary file path.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 67% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-269
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- samsung:galaxy_gear_firmware
- samsung:gear_2_firmware
- samsung:gear_fit_2_firmware
- samsung:gear_fit_2_pro_firmware
- samsung:gear_fit_firmware
- samsung:gear_live_firmware
- samsung:gear_s2_firmware
- samsung:gear_s3_firmware
- samsung:gear_s_firmware
- samsung:gear_sport_firmware
References
- https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2026/DEF%20CON%2026%20presentations/Dongsung%20Kim%20and%20Hyoung%20Kee%20Choi%20-%20Updated/DEFCON-26-Dongsung-Kim-and-Hyoung-Kee-Choi-Your-Watch-Can-Watch-You-Updated.pdf
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IdgBwbOT-g&feature=youtu.be
- https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2026/DEF%20CON%2026%20presentations/Dongsung%20Kim%20and%20Hyoung%20Kee%20Choi%20-%20Updated/DEFCON-26-Dongsung-Kim-and-Hyoung-Kee-Choi-Your-Watch-Can-Watch-You-Updated.pdf
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IdgBwbOT-g&feature=youtu.be